INFOhio Database
Scavenger Hunt
What 2 sources can you search?
What other way can the database be searched?
Complete a search for ‘seawater’. How many entries does your search find?
Complete a search for ‘fish’. How many entries does your search find?
Complete a search for ‘seawater and fish’. How many entries does your search find?
Draw a Venn diagram to explain the above result.
Complete a search for ‘seawater or fish’. How many entries does your search find?
Draw a Venn diagram to explain the above result.
Complete a search for ‘seawater not fish’. How many entries does your search find?
Draw a Venn diagram to explain the above result.
Click ‘help’. Click ‘Finding Articles’.
For a precise match, in what format should you enter a name?
Are the biographies of living or dead Americans?
Search for Lincoln, Abraham in the search by name box. When did Abraham Lincoln die?
Choose creator and search for artwork by da Vinci.
Who owns the piece Studies for the Nativity?
Use the timeline to find an entry about an event that occurred during the year of your birth. What is the article about?
Find an entry written by Christopher Columbus. What is the title and in what year was it written?
Find an entry on a topic of your choice. Complete a bibliography card for it. Refer to your Bibliography Card – MLA Style handout.
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Click the ‘Secondary Search Grades 7-12’ button. Check MASUltra – School Edition.
Find an article on a topic of your choice. Complete a bibliography card for it. First, determine if you have an online magazine article or an online newspaper article.
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Click on ‘African American Poetry’
Search for “The poet and his song”
Click on ‘Table of Contents’ and click on “The poet and his song”
Who wrote the poem?
What is the first line of the poem?
Click on Cincinnati Enquirer, The (OH)
Search for ‘ross high school’
Click on the article “Region’s voters to decide 19 issues”
Complete a bibliography card for this newspaper article.
Hint: Use the example for an article in a newspaper, plus add the last 2 lines from the example of an article in an online magazine.
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Complete a quick search for Charles Dickens
How did Charles Dickens begin his writing career?
Find the magazine article on genetics that appeared in the 1993 copy of Current Health 2
Write a bibliography card for it
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Which databases do you think would best help you in your classes?
List the databases after the classes offered at Ross High School.
There will probably be more than one correct answer for each class.
Access Science
American National Biography
Amico
Annals of American History
Britannica Online School Edition
Ebsco Host
Literature Online
Newsbank
Oxford Reference
SIRS Discoverer
English
Math
Science
Social Studies
Art
Business